About the Role:
Support the company's growth by attracting and securing high-calibre mid to senior level talent across Asset Development, Asset Management, and Shared Services. Acting as a trusted advisor to business leaders and HRBPs, this role delivers a fast, insight-led and candidate-centric hiring experience that sets the standard for quality, fairness, and compliance with recruitment policies.
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What You Will Do:
General
- Partner with business leaders and HRBPs to translate workforce plans into clear hiring priorities and recruitment strategies.
- Lead discussions to align role requirements, success profiles, sourcing approaches, and hiring timelines.
- Manage the end-to-end recruitment cycle for Manager to Director-level roles, from attraction and sourcing through to offer acceptance.
- Deliver high-quality shortlists through proactive sourcing, headhunting, referrals, and professional talent networks.
- Build and maintain talent pipelines, market maps, and succession pipelines for critical and hard-to-fill roles.
- Provide market intelligence, competitor insights, salary benchmarks, and talent availability data to support hiring decisions.
- Facilitate structured, competency-based assessments and support hiring managers in making objective, merit-based selection decisions.
- Plan and conduct assessment centres, open days, and other selection activities where required.
- Conduct reference and background checks and manage offer negotiations within approved budgets and reward guidelines.
- Deliver a positive, engaging, and candidate-centric experience throughout the recruitment journey.
- Maintain accurate recruitment data and reporting within SAP SuccessFactors and provide regular pipeline updates to business and HR leadership.
- Ensure compliance with recruitment policies, audit requirements, and agreed service levels while effectively managing agency partnerships and external recruitment spend.
Required Skills To Be Successful:
- Strong strategic headhunting, talent mapping, and proactive sourcing capabilities.
- Excellent competency-based interviewing and candidate assessment skills.
- Strong stakeholder management skills with the ability to build trusted partnerships with business leaders and HRBPs.
- Persuasive negotiation and closing skills, particularly for mid to senior-level appointments.
- Ability to provide data-driven market insights, competitor intelligence, and salary benchmarking.
- Strong understanding of the real estate value chain, including development, construction, asset and property management, and leasing.
- High levels of discretion, integrity and commitment to fair and compliant recruitment practices.
What Qualifies You For The Role:
- Minimum of 7 years of recruitment experience, including at least 3 years hiring mid to senior-level talent across the GCC.
- Recruitment experience within real estate, construction, retail or related sectors.
- In-house recruitment experience within a large, matrix organisation is preferred, while an executive search background is a strong advantage.
- Hands-on experience using SAP SuccessFactors and LinkedIn Recruiter.
About the company
With a legacy of more than six decades in real estate and asset management, the company creates real impact on the communities it serves through long-term investment and growth. As one of the region’s leading private developers, the company plans, creates and manages developments across the MENA region.
The company has a diversified, multi-billion-dollar portfolio across the real estate value chain and asset types such as residential, commercial, malls, and industries including hospitality, healthcare, infrastructure, and education. Flagship mixed-use urban communities include Dubai Festival City and Cairo Festival City.
The company is also responsible for a fully integrated, end-to-end specialist division operating across the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and Egypt. The business has delivered industry-leading construction, engineering, technology, and FM solutions for more than 50 years.
